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Author : Peter Vaughan Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760720882
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Classics written by Peter Vaughan Jones and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter V. Jones
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780715631379
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (313 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Classics written by Peter V. Jones and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Jones gives an account of what is meant by the term Classics and how knowledge of the Greeks and Romans has been transmitted to us today, before launching onto a selection of topics spanning the millennia.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174056
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy written by Roger Scruton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of the field but a vivid, energetic, and personal account to guide the reader making his or her own venture into philosophy. Addressing a range of subjects from freedom, God, reality, and morality, to sex, music, and history, Scruton argues philosophy's relevance not just to intellectual questions, but to contemporary life.
Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780715629734
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health is on of those subjects that seems easy to define and then, the closer one gets, is more and more difficult to understand. Does the health of a schizophrenic really improve by being sedated and kept in an asylum? Is a course of Prozac or psychotherapy aimed to make someone happy really a medicine? These incompatible views are most visible in the NHS which has over the decades become the focus of all these projections of health. At the expense of the taxpayer many are being cured while there is no money for some of those who have physical ailments in a real sense. In this book, Theodore Dalrymple sets out to tear into the myths that he believes our politicians have created, with anecdotes from his own experience as a doctor.
Author : Tony Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472913124
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education written by Tony Little and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A hugely reassuring, common-sense guide no parent of teenage boys should be without.' - Sunday Times In his bestselling An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education, Tony Little, former Head Master of Eton College, asks the fundamental questions about how we should make our schools and schoolchildren fit for the modern world. This book will enlighten teachers, students and anxious parents alike, providing advice from the author's many years as a teacher, headmaster and governor in both independent schools and academies, in answer to the key issues concerning education. Tony Little explains the research behind how teenagers' brains function and how they act accordingly, discusses how to deal with sex, drugs and poor discipline, reassesses the meaning of 'character' in a child's education, and provides his own list of books every bright 16-year-old should read. In addition, he offers tips for parents on dealing with adolescents and communicating with their child's school. Drawing on a lifetime's work in schools, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education is a refreshing, rational and original take on the most important stage in a child's development. An entertaining and essential book for teachers, parents and students interested in how education should serve our young people, now and in future.
Author : James M. Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920743895
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Classics written by James M. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical classics offers the basics of what you need to know about sixty-six great philosophical books and covers philosophers from Aristotle to the present. From Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet to Descartes' Medidations, this catch-all romp through both philosophy and the philosophical offers a foundation course in in the meaning of life.
Author : Pierre Bayard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917148
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read written by Pierre Bayard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884736
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book 50 Psychology Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the key wisdom and figures of psychology's development over 50 books, hundreds of ideas, and a century of time.
Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476790159
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book How to Read a Book written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture written by Roger Scruton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and on the "culture of repudiation" which has infected the modern academy. But his book is not only negative. It is a celebration of the true heroes of modern culture and a call to the higher life. The American edition of this famous and notorious work has been revised to take account of the controversy which it has inspired, and contains new material specially directed to Americans.
Author : Shmuel Boteach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781585678082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Judaism written by Shmuel Boteach and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it mean nothing at all that we are spiritual beings? What does one of the world's oldest religions have to say? Convinced that Judaism possesses a core of wisdom that appeals to everyone, Shmuley Boteach ferociously argues against Jews seeking piety in abstractions, in rationalizing injustice, in explaining the Holocaust away as a punishment for assimilation. He pleads for recognition that Judaism is not about death or suffering, but is about seeking optimism and spirituality. In a modern world riddled with angst, this enlightening and provocative book poses a new outlook on Judaism and spiritual life today. --
Author : John Took
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472951042
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Why Dante Matters written by John Took and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, 'divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but for an ever deeper meditation on the nature of human happiness. In Why Dante Matters, John Took offers by way of three in particular of Dante's works – the Vita Nova as the great work of his youth, the Convivio as the great work of his middle years and the Commedia as the great work of his maturity – an account, not merely of Dante's development as a poet and philosopher, but of his continuing presence to us as a guide to man's wellbeing as man. Committed as he was to the welfare not only of his contemporaries but of those 'who will deem this time ancient', Dante's is in this sense a discourse overarching the centuries, a discourse confirming him in his status, not merely as a cultural icon, but as a fellow traveller.
Author : Ikram Hawramani
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781792815331
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Understanding Islam and Muslims written by Ikram Hawramani and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Understanding Islām and Muslims is a multidisciplinary study of Islam as it is lived and experienced by Muslims, presenting an alternative way of seeing Islam that dispels the myths popularized by such works as The Crisis of Islam, The Closing of the Muslim Mind and other attempts that leap from theory to practice without taking real-world Muslims into account.
Author : Chris Argyris
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691322
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Teaching Smart People How to Learn written by Chris Argyris and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward—on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees for learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The HBR Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each volume contains a groundbreaking idea that has shaped best practices and inspired countless managers around the world-and will change how you think about the business world today.
Author : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Intelligent American's Guide to Europe written by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and published by Crown. This book was released on 1979 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alban McCoy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826476739
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Christian Ethics written by Alban McCoy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating discussion of the fundamental concepts we employ in every day consideration of moral questions for the general reader.
Author : Lee Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891951339
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Reading the Right Books written by Lee Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The things I want to know are in books, Abraham Lincoln wrote, and so he read. Good books are rightly addictive, enticing the dedicated reader to open more books, and gain more knowledge, and come closer to wisdom. The more one reads, John Adams observed, the more one sees we have to read.Books contain the ideas, make the arguments, and preserve the history necessary for the maintenance and perpetuation of liberty.Reading the Right Books is a practical list of thoughtful and accessible books-not the classics but solidly good books-recommended to provide a general framework around which the reader can build a firmer structure of political knowledge.Edited and annotated by Lee Edwards, the Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation, Reading the Right Books is a guide for intelligent, conservative-minded readers who want to prepare themselves for a public life of thought and action, and to seek to know more about politics, public policy and modern conservative thought, as well as literature, economics, religion, history, and statesmanship.
